By: Lexi Schaffer Reuse and recycle. Most of us have heard these words repeated countless times, ...

By Bob DeAngelis As the price of fossil fuels increases, the opportunities for savings do too.  ...

By: Lexi Schaffer Slow fashion is an approach branded by many as outdated – handcrafted, durable ...

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By: Chandu Visweswariah Climate change is the existential challenge of our lifetimes. Like me, you ...

By Laura Kosbar Let’s start with some basics – like what is cryptocurrency and how does it differ ...

By Cyril Cabral, Jr. If someone had told you a few years ago that there would be a pandemic in the ...

Author: Robert De Angelis I have spent years studying many aspects of our environment and the ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Money makes the world go around. Put your money where your mouth is. While ...

 Cyril Cabral, Jr. The Case for Man-Made Climate Change Have you ever walked up to your car on a ...

You know the climate is warming and you may even know why .  You know there’s an imbalance ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Look in the mirror and ask yourself, “Am I an arsonist?” The honest answer ...

By Sarah Wilson Gas powered leaf blowers (“GLBs”) are more detrimental to the environment than you ...

By Laura Kosbar  Are you feeling safe to travel again, and ready to go on a special vacation ...

Author: Bob DeAngelis We are very fortunate to live in a country that values and protects our � ...

Author:  Robert DeAngelis As we transition away from fossil fuels, we will rely more heavily ...

By Sarah Wilson We’re all familiar with the three Rs associated with waste:  Reduce, Reuse,. ...

by  Peter Capek In July of 2019, New York’s legislature passed an important and forward ...

By: Bob DeAngelis The Earth is facing a critical moment: climate change and the severe weather it ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan* The excess of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere is ...

By Patty L. Buchanan Momentum is building all around us for electric school buses, and for good ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Words matter. I once received a letter from the Carter Center in which ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Did he who made the Lamb make thee? In the old days, humans threatened ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah In 1982, I registered for a class called “Communications Circuits” on the ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Calling all meat eaters! Would your meat cravings ever be satisfied by ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah The recent United Nations IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) ...

By Chandu Visweswariah “There is no time for delay and no room for excuses, the report is a code ...

By: Cyril Cabral Jr. How would you dress if you had to spend the day outside in Antarctica, with ...

By: Bob DeAngelis I believe we can fix some significant environmental issues by placing ...

By: Cyril Cabral Jr. Would you skip your annual physical (wellness) exam and wait years until ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not ...

By: Susan Buck In April 2021, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) noted that 29% of U.S. ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Congratulations to all residents of the Croton Harmon School District in ...

I am voting NO to Transportation Proposition 1 and YES to Propositions 2, 3 and 4 on the Croton ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah No. 46 outdid himself on Earth Day 51! The publication of Rachel Carlson’s ...

By: Mary Ann Kelly It is spring and a perfect time to set sustainable cleaning goals! Green ...

By: Patty Buchanan As part of the Sustainability Committee’s efforts to win a $70,000 ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah The Croton School District (Westchester County, New York) is placing the ...

By: Robert DeAngelis Why not?  It’s convenient.   Why not?  Because by purchasing bottled water we� ...

By: Leo Wiegman “Cradle to grave designs dominate modern manufacturing” architect Bill McDonough ...

By: Cyril Cabral Jr Riding a bicycle is a complex task, with many of our 600 human muscles needed ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Editor’s note: this blog marks the 50th piece contributed by Croton100 in ...

By: Sarah Wilson Credit: textiletoday.com.bd Some aspects of our carbon footprint are easy to ...

  By: Patty L. Buchanan Croton100 has continued with its best efforts to educate the Croton School ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Bill Gates’ book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” was published two weeks ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan Climate stability advocates spend a lot of time on the emotional ...

By: Shubir Kapoor The global food system, which spreads across production and post-farm activities ...

By: Leo Wiegman As one of the youngest nations on Earth, Tuvalu could be among the first ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah CURE100 offers a Carbon Tracker software application that allows a ...

By: Bob DeAngelis Photo credit: HeatSmart Westchester For much of history, we have burned things ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan Wooohooo, my all-time favorite Super Bowl ad was released this, ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah “A Tale of Two Cities” is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set ...

By: Mary Ann Kelly Yorktown100 is excited to announce that we have become one of four charter ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan January 20 was a triumphant day for climate action.  Starting with his ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan There was a recent notable confluence of local and global discourse on the ...

By: Leo Weigman The massive 5,500 page COVID-19 bill that Congress approved and President Trump ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Now is the time to advocate for electrification of school transportation ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah This past week I received numerous holiday greetings expressing a ...

By: Susan B. Buck Sustainable: 1. able to continue over a period of time. 2. causing little or no ...

By Patty L. Buchanan.  Image Credit: Kym Mackinnon, Unsplash This year-end-period with the ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan The United Nations Environmental Program published a report this ...

By: Shubir Kapoor The holiday season is upon us.  Especially in this year of COVID-19, many of us ...

By: Anuj Kapoor When people think of solar power, most of the time they think of the traditional, ...

By: Laura Kosbar Image Credit: Sustainable Westchester Community Solar If you live in the Town of ...

By Patty L. Buchanan Haudenosaunee Flag; credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Our modern ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan The Croton100 and CURE100 Community has much to celebrate. This past week we ...

By: Sarah Wilson A recent article in these pages featured the Meatless Monday movement.  Meatless ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah  Clean Energy U Curve courtesy RethinkX Adam Dorr and Tony Seba of, ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan President-Elect Joe Biden has been clear and consistent throughout his ...

By: Dhruv Gupta* Water Usage per EPA; Burger water use per Wall Street Journal, Jan.11, 2008; We ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan The month of October reminds me of the need to take action urgently and ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah The writing is on the wall: we are witnessing the beginning of the end of ...

By: Nadya Hall & Phyllis Bock What is compost? Compost is made of decayed organic material and ...

By: Joel Gingold When you drive around Croton at night, the streetlights probably look pretty much ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan The climate crisis is escalating because carbon emissions from fossil fuels ...

By: Sarah Wilson When we measure the carbon footprint of an average household in Yorktown, ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan Image by: Driveelectricweek.org The extreme weather events roiling the, ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah We live in a topsy-turvy world. Increasingly, from world affairs to local ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan   Here are a few of this week’s news headlines:  “The Effects of Climate ...

By: Bill Stoiber In last year’s hit movie “Marriage Story” Adam Driver, a transplanted New ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Something profound is happening right in front of our eyes. Our very ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan Have you heard the electrifying news?  Croton’s Community Solar Project ...

By: Cyril Cabral Jr. It is up to all of us to take steps, no matter how small, toward making the ...

By: Jolie Wasserman* The Croton100 Carbon Tracker Increases Awareness of How Sustainably You ...

By: Sarah Wilson Image Credit: Meatless Monday The choices we make every week and every day ...

By: Steve Bluestone* The process of brewing beer consumes a LOT of energy. But, if one tweaks the ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Would you knowingly harm your child? Of course not! What about your ...

By: Chandu Visweswariah Graphic by Prof. Rob Jackson of Stanford A very interesting paper“ ...

By: Robert DeAngelis Do you have a sunny roof?  Would you like to get 8-15% average annual return ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan* Image Credit: Re-Imagining Migration.org Scientists are able to measure and ...

By: Laura Kosbar While many of the changes you may need to make to reduce your carbon footprint & ...

By: Patty L. Buchanan Croton100 continues to grow in impact!  In addition to galvanizing our ...

By: Katherine Borchert Yorktown100, a group of Yorktown residents, aims to reduce the town’s ...

By: Robert DeAngelis Let’s make the world a cleaner, safer and healthier place. Like Michael ...

By: Leo Wiegman* What is Community Solar? Solar for the rest of us. New York State is a leader in ...

By: Sheryl Goldberg They say we’ve reached an inflection point in our society.  But what does that ...

By:  Patty L. Buchanan How can we be working so hard to educate the upcoming generation to take ...

By Patty L. Buchanan We just took steps to reduce our energy consumption.  This means we’ll also ...

By: Susan Sammon Have you noticed? There are many more electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid cars ...

By: Leo Wiegman Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love my data! “If you cannot measure it, ...